Improvement in base-burning fire-place heaters



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' LettersPatent No. 110,654, dated January 3, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT-IN BASE7BURNING FlRE- -PLAC E HE'ATERS.

The schedule referred to in these Iietters Patent and making part of the same,

To all whom it may. concern.

Be it known that I, ELISHA S. HEATH, of the city and county of Baltimore in the State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Fire-Place Heater and I do hereby declare the following to -be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

Figure 1, Sheet I, is a perspective view of my im-, proved heater viewed from the rear; and

Figure 2, Sheet II, is a transverse vertical section of the same. 1

Similar letters of reference denote corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to improve the construction of fire place heaters or stoves whereby the same are rendered more eflicient in'use, and adapted v for fire-places of difierent sizes.

Heaters of this class have heretofore been constructed with the flue-pipes arranged upon the sides near the'fr'ont, and surrounded by a sheet-metal casing, which also extends over the top, sides, and rear portions of the heater.

Owing tothis construction, and to the fa .t that the front must be surrounded by a cast-metal frame when the heater isfitted to a fire-place, their application to small fire-places is impossible, and their general use consequently prevented.

To overcome this objection, heaters have been made of earious sizes to adapt them to large and small fireplaces. This, in a measure, avoids the diflieulty but, it is apparent that, if a large area is to be heated and the fireplace is incapable of receiving a heater of sufficient capacity to heat such area,ia smaller heater must be employed which cannot supply the requisite amountof heat.

' My invention is designed to supply such a heater as shall be applicable to large and small fire-places, at the same time possessing the requisite heating-capacity.

To this end, the invention consists, primarily, in extending the base of the stove to the rear to receive v a suitable discharge-flue or pipe, and in arranging the flue-pipes to connect the base with the rear of the stove, in a manner tobe hereinafter described, whereby the heater,'instead of being set wholly within a fire-place, is projected from the front partially into the room, leaving only its back-flue pipes and dischargefiue within the fire-place, and dispensing entirely with The invention also consists in certain other described In the drawing v A is the base of'the'stove, extended considerably to the rear of the cylinder B, and supporting centraily at its back edge, the upright discharge-pipe E.

B is'a second cylinder,- supported upon the cylinder B by means of the ring D, and provided upon its front with the coal-spout F.

G is the-coal-hopper, suspended cccentrically with in the cylinder B, and extending downward within the cylinder B, a short distance below the ring D.

O 0 'are draught-fines, communicating with the cylinder B at the back of the same, and upon each side of the pipe E. Their upper ends enter the eyl lnder below the ring D, and about on a line with the lower edge of the hopper, or above the same, as shown in the drawing, and their lower ends passingthrough the base A, communicate directly with the lower end of the pipe E. I

Upon the-front of the base a suitable door is arranged through which ashes andcoal, are removed, and within the door of the spout F a register is placed to regulate thedraughtof the stove.

' The draught of the heater is indicated by the direction of the arrows,fig. 2. The airentering the coal-spout F,'through the reg ister, passes downward through the hopper to the grate H, and from thence upward outside the hopper, between the same and the cylinder B, to the upper ends of the dues 0. Through these flues it passes downward to the base of the pipe E, which latter discharges it into the chimney.

. In fitting the heater to a fireplace, the mouth of 'thechimney over the fire-place is closed or hooded upby a sheet-metal plate, and the pipe E of the heater. passed through a hole in the same.

To the pipe E other sections of pipe are attached, to conduct the products of combustion through the chimney in the usual manner, leaving the chimney proper as the hot-air flue.

In'order to heat the rooms of a house, some portion of the heater must .be placed within the fire place, that the heat radiated therefrom may'ascend through the chimney to the rooms to be heated.

*Thisresult is accomplished by the pipes O and the rear extension of the base A, which parts, togetherwith the pipe It, are within the fire-place, while the cylinders and front of the heater project into the The pipes'O, and the rear extension of the base A,

owing to their arrangement for the passage of the the fire-place.

products of combustion into the pipe E, afford suflioient radiating surface for heating the upper rooms, and at the same time occupy but a small portion of For this latter reason, the largest heaters are applicable to the smallest fire-places.

By arranging a damper, K, in the pipe E, the draught through said pipe is regulated, as will be readily understood.-

Having thus described my invention,

What I ,claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The fire-place heater, constructed with the rear extension of the base A, and with the pipes O O E, arranged with relation to such base and the cylinders of the heater, substantially as herein described, for the purpose specified.

' ELISHA S. HEATH.

Witnesses:

J. S. FLEEHZEARTY, FRANK R. ELDRIDGE. 

